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It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by umbraroze@slrpnk.net to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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(Obligatory "I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games" "Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days")

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[–] Doorknob@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I particularly liked that the original Unreal came with a pack-in note apologising for the crappy netcode.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i want games to come with a collection of comments from the code, so we can appreciate the work devs put in

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